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the carolina watchman irol viii third series salisbury n c december 7 1876 no 8 wkkki.v-.t j bruner ed and prop t ! - nta ' t k iiitr.nkk associate ed gcbscbiftioh rates : rear payable tn advance t oo r r o ,'. 1 25 i "**"" advertising rates : , ... one pubucatloo i oo l 1 vu iii'ill ileitis 1 50 , rit - tor months or a year jhe prostrate state dragooned jrjfjo treacflery of the federal commander jhanly and outspoken renunciation of the fed eral usurpation ifflg 0fjhhrue metal fill remain until dragged out by armed troops is it a free government or a centralized despotism ! a t est t ) b e m a i ) e â€” wu at theaemrican peo ple will skk the political situation â€” while lie telegraphic information which we gient i our readars to d*y is lar from utirfaeuny the manly protest of tli ee ofthe leading democrats i the country ijjressfii to general ruger reads like ionic inspired prophecy the eilualiou is alarming in one re ject but at last in this ( leulennial ye.u , tlie test whether the bayonet or tin b tl lot and tlm aw shall prevail id to be made ifgeienil linger drives nut the habere of llm south carolina legisla tor who have been returned from edge jitld and liui ens counties il will oaly bedone at the jioint i'l the b i \ oner ; it will only he done u|)iÂ»u the order of president grant at washington and we bake the prediction tbat if ibis order is carried out grant will be impeached im rcediatc.lv after lhe assembling of con rress if general ruger canies out tbe programme which he seemed to have agreed u|<on yesterday evening at three o'clock it will only be done by the jjÂ»si it or ler from piesident grant and that act will be prima facia evidence that he irani bad counted the cost and dares lo interpose the strong arm of his military to throttle the will of the people lo set aside the law to strangle justice and to usurp the whole powers of the gomiiuieiit if necessary lo ihesupiema er of his party it wiil he an end of eoiieliiit'.'ina uw and iloie will only h tie etep in > 1 1 necessary to make ibe em hkk iii that case we may av farewell along farewell to the principles or araeri ean liberty and lhe rights nf the people farther news from the palmetto s ate will be awaited with deep interest there is nothing absolutely uothiug from louisiana this morning although iit electiun was held twenty-three days ago ud all the returns must have been in long ago if ihey ha 1 bee i desiied the returning board in lhat slate are practic ing a strategem known iu military par lance as masterly inactivity the ob jtctoftlie board seems lo bo truly how not to get returns " tin news from florida is remarkably tnt-agic the democrats claims that the magistrate Â« ho doctored the rei urns from bakrr couuty was appointed since ihe election presumably for that purpose so that while there is no change in the sit uation then it may be said that the american people are daily hearing tin destiny in which with wise counsels and q honest administration of the laws the old ahip of male may glide safely over llir ilortnv political with tilden al the mm or be sunk to the bottom of the lurln.l waters of political oblivion and be t'uie a warning to future generations ur proud republic will shine out as at emblem of the stab.lity of our govern nt or it will b blotted mil ol existence tu become a stench in the nostrils of hon Â«', law abiding men columbia nov aa â€” the d.-mocra Â«* house took peaceable possession ol the state legislative hall at their regular hour f convening 11 o'clock this morning and proceeded to work under their organizi n the republican house entered Â«Â« ball at lv their regular hour of meet '"&â€¢ both speakeis are u lhe bland wallace democrat in the i hair mack-v tc p at the link's desk a debate is progressing llepublicau members ham ton and myers denounce the action of *Â» republican house as illegal and uu f0'i"liuiiional everything is peaceable j good temper prevails no person wowed in the hall except members the uemncrat are cheeiful ami confideni he republicans anxious and dispirited ome of tluir members say they want a titled gov in ment and are for south carolina rather llian for the men who have ruined her 7 p m situation but little changed l the stale house good humor on Â° lu idcs with some efforts al a coaipro which may result satiafactory about :{ o'clock p m , gen ruger e l his staff officer to the speaker's stand d notified the democratic speaker wallace that 12 o'clock to morrow the memocrajic members from edgi-field w uhl tint be p nniiled on the floor of he house upon lhe receipt of that or der the followiug letter was immediately fctit : columbia s c nov 30 to gen t ji ruger commanding u Â°- i roops in south carolina : i^ear sir : we have just leard trough maj mcginnis nf your staff j^lu otdcr communicated lo mr wallace speaker of the house of representatives that at 12 o'clock to morrow tbe members elect from edgefield would not be allow ed upon the floor of the house to say that we are surprised at such an order after the explanations and pledges made by you to each one of us is to use very mild language when the outrage of tuesday last w-as committed by the plac ing of armed sentinels at the door of the house of representatives who decided the admission of members to their seats and when the provisions of the constitu tion and the decision of tbe supreme joint were brought to your attention you distinctly and warmly asserted again and again that your orders were misunder stood and that you had not intended to have sentinels ai the door of the hail and that you hud not and did not intend to assume to decide upon the legality of any man's seat or upon his right to enter the hall you were then retained hy us that your guard received instructions from one dennis a citizen and partisan of gov chamberlain to admit parties upon iiis own piss or that of one jones and bad through armed forces excluded all demo crats ti'im ibe ball until the republican organization was completed you assur ed us again that such were nol your or ders vou wen told by us that notwith standing the perpetration of this inex pressible shame upon our free institutions and the rights of the people the evils could siill be remedied without any vios leuce of bloodshed by the simple with drawal ol your guard from the doors of the hill ; that the democratic member's snuggle with the republicans and by a majority of votes decide all questions in accordance wiih law and the usages of legislative bodies you stated that no troops should be at the door and that un der no ciicnmstances would you interfere j except ihere should occur a serious dis | tin bance of the peace you affirmed your determination to exercise nn supervisory control whatever over the body or bodies claiming to be the house of representa tives all this occurred on yesterday i.i.-t night in a later interview with sen \ ator gordon you made the same assur i auces and this morning after both bodies were assembled in the hall you assured gen hampton that under no circum ' stance would you iuleifere except to keep lhe peace whal now can justly measure our astonishment at the issuance of such an order as the one just sent by you there is no bieach of the peace and no prospect of its disturbance yen had it officially brought to your knowledge that absolute good humor prevails in that hall v -\ e cannot refrain from expressing the apprehension tbat the fact that a num ber of leading republicans are taking is sue with the legality ot the proceedings by the republican house has changed your views as to your line of duly it is proper that we should say in conclusion that we relied upon your honor as a man and your character as a soldier to main tain your p'edg'*d position of nou inter vention the democratic members from edgefield and liurens are entitled to their seats by the judgment of the su preme courl of this state and we have advised them to remain in lhat hall until removed by your troops that tbe issue may be made in ibis centennial year of american independence whether we have a government ot law as construed by our courts or a centralized despotism whose onl law is force let the american peo ple heboid tbe spectacle of a brigadier gen ral of the army seated by the side of governor chamberlain in a room of the state house and issuing bis orders to a legislative body peaceably assembled iu one ofthe original thirteen commonwealths of ibis union respectfully yours signed j b gordon wadk uahptox a c haskkll these three gentlemen hid been in conference with gen linger yesterday and today louisiana democratic votes thrown out â€” board still a vhitvavy â€” destructive fire â€” volunteer company required by kel logg fo surrender their arms new orleans dec l â€” hy adoption of the supervisors return and rejection nf billot boxes the democrats lose 1,136 voles in uist baton rouge pai ish ihe boaid decides the same evidence applies io stale as to electoral ticket two white men planters near whom mrs i'ltikstou lived show that her mis fortunes were the result of low negro brawls and general bad behavior the white people having nothing to do wiih the prclimiiuires or the tragic result one of these gentlemen furnished her with a doctor and hurried her husband â€” her child when found i i the lake had no marks of violence the hoard refused to hear other witnesses saying if women had slandered the people they had their rem edy in courts tbe board had nothing to do with it a fire broke out early this morning at corner of s lb-mam and claeborne streets has reached and crossed esplande street and is still burning at noon three blocks thus far were destroyed the city volunteer military organiza tion turned over their arms borrowed from the slate to col l'lan chief of the metropolitan police at tbe request oi gov kellogg tiie indian w1gwam8 tlie lied skins badly worsted on the trail of crazy horse cheyenne dec 1 â€” mckenzic'a victory is most complete the entire village with stores captured leaving the indians wholly destilute the indians loss is about 25 with a large num ber wounded mckenzle will combine with crook and attack crazy horse on the rosebud river gen ruger writes a let ter to the war depart ment disclaims interfer ence was by his orders a colored member severely denounces his party as lawless and revolution ary others declare their in tention of leaving the or ganization columbia dec 1 â€” everything un ; changed hoth parties in the house ex | peeling military interference none up ' to six p m gen roger has done noth 1 ing as yet the matter will hardly | change before to morrow democrats ate cheerful republicans are uneasy columbia s c dec 1 gen w t sherman or the secretary of war washington i c : i have cheerfully abstained from inter ference with th 3 organization of the house from the first on lhe application ol the governor and my own belief for the ne cessity therefore for tho preservation of the peace i placed troops iu the slate house but not in the rooms of the assem bly or either the houses on the day of the meeting it came about that at the tine tlie soldiers were placed on either side of the door of entrance to the hall of rep resentatives under the following circum stances : a person at the door of the house and who claimed authority to ex amine certificates of those claiming to be members prior to their admission to the hall bul who i think had no legal authori ty for so doi:ig ( applied to the officers in command of ibe troops placed in the cor lidor lor the preservation of peace for as sistance on ihe ground that he was being pressed upon and could not perform his duty the soldiers were placed as staled as so in as i was fully informed of the circumstances i ordered the soldiers wiih ! drawn as 1 had previously informed gov chamberlain that i should confine my action to the preservation of the peace and should do nothing with reference to keeping the doors of the rooms of meeting ' of the houses or tlie rooms themselves ' unless it became necessary because of breach of the peace which the civil of ficers of the houses should be unable to restore â€” no act was done by the soldiers except that of presence as stated bul ! whilst they were so present persons claim ing rights ot enterance under the certifi cate of the clerk of the supreme court were refused atl mission signed t ii ruger commanding the department a proposition signed by both speakers to adjourn to 12 to-morrow and meet with the status unchanged provided gen ruger would agree cen linger refused on the ground he must obey o.ders from washington tbe hoiiics therefore are not likely to adjourn hamilton a colored republican member from beaufort made a strong speech said be was a republican voted for cham berlain hayes and wheeler bill he could not stand to see all law stricken down in the effort to preserve the party every member knew lhat this body to which lie belonged was not legal had no quorum when organized that laws made by it would be void and there would beuopto tectiou lo property or life if we ivenide the law ; that we musi bow to judgment of the supreme court several republi cans have signified tbeir intention io aban don the jlackey organization south carolina both parties spent the night in lhe state house hall lighted by gas for the first time in two years â€” ruger ims nut yet carried out his threat i bought he would resign first colombia dec 1 the situation is un changed both bodies have occupied the house of representatives since 12 yesterday numer ous proposition for compromise availed noth ing now half past one lhe coiled states troops have not interfered the democratic representatives from edgefield and laurens are still in their seats the democrats are cheerful and claim that the united slates ail tlioritivs cannot ignore the decisions of the supreme courl it is now likely that sufficient number of republicans will unite with lhe democrats in which event the entire matter will be settled washington dec 1 specials from colum bia up to ten o'clock last night represent the colored element ofthe combined houses as in a yelling state as night approached thev brought candles in their bottles the gas com pany however upon security by the democrat for the bills turned on the gas and for the first lime in two years the great chandeliers of ihe house were ablaze the very latest advices this morning show little progress toward the solution what cen ruger will do or ims heett ordered to do is unknown lii soldierly comrades here say if obedience to ordeis infringes on his private honor he will surrender his sword louisiana the supporters of kellogg fire the city â€” one incendiary shot and killed in the act â€” another shot at but escapes new orleans dee 1 â€” as far as could be ascertained llie following in lhe number of hou ses destroyed by the tire here this morning 20 on columbus st 24 on roberston pt 32 on vellere 3 on maro's st and 10 and st anna church on lsplande st the dwellings of augusta and amadie courterie a brains rocca clark and crazat super's residences on esplan ath st were consumed most of the buildings burned were small cottages and hundreds of poor people lost all their possessions leon detrieux a member ofthe 6re department had his leg broken ir three places a negro who was detected setting fire to one ofthe buildings during the progress of the conflagration was shot and instantly killed another negro also found in the act of committing the crime was shot at but was missed and succeeded in rrmk inj bis escape cabinet meeting complexion of the illinois legislature washington dec 1 cabinet full ses sion unusually long no developments of par ticular strength by any one for the speaker more important matters crowd the contest out of conversation the illinois legislature consists of 100 re publicans 9s democrats and 5 independents this indicates that gen logan will not be his successor the debt statement shows in treasurv coin nearly eight million currency 11 j millions bishop hood his response to the sentinel for the colored people kxpression from the color conference of north caro lina tin sentinel assurances in behalf of the de mocracy accepted und if carried out we shall ilarr no ground of complaint for the political affiliations of the colored people in the future plymouth n c nov llth 187g to the editors of the ualeigh sentinel gentlemen : nothing could have been more timely than tlie article iu your issue of tbe 9,h inst addressed to lhe colored people and under the circumstance nothing could be more noble and magnanimous than the spirit manifested by the senti ments expressed i hail this a a beam of light which betokens the dawn of a brighter day 1 am prepared to assert that bad such sentiments emanated from the same source nine years ago you would not have seen what you have witnessed during this unpleasant period of our history â€” un pleasant to you and certainly not less un pleasant to ns you would not have seen the colored man voting most solidly against the men for whom personally he had the highest possible respect yea a respect that amounted almost to reverence vou would never have seen colored men voting for men who cared nothing for tbein except that by tbeir suffrage they could bold office had it not beeu that they believed that this was the only way in which they could maintain their own lights the situation of my people as you frankly and generously admit has been unpleasant in lhe extreme 1 think you will agree with me lhat as a rule the black man has lhe organ of approbatives ness large he loves the approval of his fellow man especially of the better and more favored class it has therefore been w imt appealed lo him the sternest neces sity amounting to a religious duly that has induced him to sacr.iice the good will of those to have obtained which he would have been willing to make any reasonable sacrifice as your articles in substance admits all ibis i will not follow this line of thought further you are right my people do feel alarmed but if you will permit me i will sug gest a cause thai may not bave occured to you i think wtiai has most alarmed my people is the lone of the dem ci atic press we receive so much abuse so little praise so little fairness our crimes are magnified our virtu are overlooked when appeals have been ! made to us ii litis been done in a kind of ! half-threatening style which repulses or a don't care style lhat shows a want of heartiness i am sure that from your own observation a bare statement of tlie case is sufficient to enable you to take in lhe whole of my meaning the colored people are more discern ing more penetrating thau llwy have the credit for it is because of the heartiness tin evidence siuceiity running through every line cf your article thai i hail it with joy as well as on account ol the source from which it comes the sentiments expressed are such as naturally flow from lhe hearts of christian gentlemen the sentiments ofthe sentinel under its pres ent management have been far above what wc hate been accustomed to you gentlemen aie entitled to all you claim vou have a right to speak for the democratic party you i bt-lieve can mould its administration of the affiirs of the government you represent the wealth the intelligence the refinement ea the religion of that party the pai ty could not tiff ud to lose influence ot the class you represent and now speaking lr at least 1,000 000 oue hundred thousand of my people who attend upon the ministry in the church 1 represent i assure you that we receive and accopi your very generous address with hearts of gratitude and i will further assure you that if the affaiis ot this state are administered during the next four yeats as you assure us they will be you shall have no ground to complain of our conduct as to our po litical affiliations in future in ibis we sacrifice no principle it is not men nor party interests that we have sought to promote but our liberties we have sought to becure you assure us lhat you will maintain our rights you use such language as can not be mistaken it comes from a source that we cannot distrust you suggest a proposition that time will test you say the colored people will now have the opportunity to leain that the democracy has no design against their liberties this is all we have ever asked for were we not satisfied with the fulfillment of these promises we would deserve your scorn j w hood bishop a m e zion church america the first cargo of iron for the spar tanburg and asbeville railroad has ar rived al spartanburg and tbe work of track laying will be commenced imme diately cremation in georgia lhe oriental order of humanity burning the body of w 11 suppus augusta constitutionalist j in augusta on saturday evening laaf the body of a man who died on the 3d in : atlanta was cremated under the direction ! of the oriental order of humanity the coffin a handsome rosewood upon which was engraved npon a silver plate william r suppus age 42 died no vember 4th 1 870 was placed upon the pile and the order was then gathered in a circle solemn grand and peculiar around the mortal remains of the deceased brother arter the singular prayer nf the order had been delivered by the junior friar the torch was solemnly and delib erately applied lo the pile and at once the flames leaped upward and up ward tbe coffin was soon enveloped in flames and thousands saw what had nev er been known here before a human body cremated balconies windows housetops trees awnings to say nothing ofthe living mass that thronged the street were crowded to witness the oro ceedings while the fire was lapping in angry fury the lifeless body of this great man the friar delivered in the peculiar language of the order a most eloquent and touching oration soon the coffin began to crumble and a ghastly spectacle was presented to the eye the body blackened burning hissing smoking was clearly visible and as the stifling odors filled the air the shrieks and cries of men women and chil dren were heard on all sides after the funeral fires had burned down all that was mortal of w r sup pus was gathered in the urn by the most worthy keeper of the sacred relics and the society headed by the band playing tbe dirge specially written for the occasion entitled he has gone to his long long home unsoaked by water returned to lhe hut where the ashes were deposited iu the vault theu the bociety dispersed public and private rogues opinions may differ as to the cause but there is no doubt of the fact that in the days before the war public plundering was unknown at the south what of it was practiced was confined to the people of great moral ideas our brethren in habiting the northern section of tbe union with the changes induced by the results of the war between the states there has come change iu this respect south ern communities now as well as northern communities number among their citizens those who have grown rich by plunder of the people and southern communities as well as northern communities have learned since the war to look with com placency at least upon rogues who pass by the corn cribs and hen-roosts of their neighbors but under the forms of law break into the public crib and appropriate the property of the people public opin ion is still against the petty thief it needs to be once more roused against the thief who grows rich by theft the people must learn to think as they once did that personal and political honesty cannot exist apart that the man who lies as a politi cian will lie as readily upon occasion in any other relation of life that he who plunders the public will plunder the indi vidual citizen with as little compunction it the plunder be worth taking as is well said by the baltimore sun there never was a greater or more p>'stilent fallacy than that which prevails in many minds that there is a difference in the guilt of public aud private dishonesty so tbat the crime of stealing for example which when an individual is the victim brings the wrongdoer into universal contempt becomes as it were diluted and innocuous when a whole nation is plundered even the shameless whisky ring rogues when convicted and sent to the penitentiary are not looked upon as common felons and have a reasonable prospect of being speed ily released from the inconvenience of their confinement by executive interposi tion â€” a result which has been curiously realizpd already tweed the gigantic robber of new york city becomes a kind of hero and is brought home from his temporary pi ice of retreat iu a ship of war ibe captain of which gives up his cabin lo tbis felonious guest of the nation though it is true not wi hout strictly guarding him as to the credit mobilier and robbing railroad rings iu general no punishment and scarcely aud public oblo quy ever overtakes them they are just as influential with their party and receive as much social consideration as if they had never been suspected of felony yet nothing is more certain than that iiip moral quality of such me:i is essentially lhat of the inmates f the jail and penitentiaries of the lar.d while it may be doubtful whether tire rogue wiio picks the pockets of an individual dossesses the genius to pick the pockets of a nation there is no doubt whatever lhat the man who picks the pocket ofa nation is capable of pick ing the pocket of an individual this view of the case ought always to be made prominent in order that the public thief if he has no other punishment may fully understand that he is understood by his fellow men and that they are not deceiv ed as to his true inwardness as a rogne and felon because the depredations are public instead of individual â€” ualeigh observer the new york sun says : to count hayes in fraudulently , is probably the most moristrous political crime ever conceived in this country if successful it would be the murder of the republic it would be the end of official accountability to the people â€” the end of elections thence forth our rulers would be named for us by those in power at washington tiie democratic presidential programme the new york herald publishes a let ter from hon clarkson n potter review ing the political situation and stating the course which ought lo be taken if mr til den should be cheated out his election â€¢ by the action of the louisiana or any other | returning board the letter is a singularly able one briefly staled the conclusions reached by mr potter are that in the event of the issue of clearly fraudulent certiii cates to the hayes electors in louisiana it will devolve on congress to take th matter in band mr potter holds with mr randall and many other prominent statesmen and publicists and he cites precedents in support ofhis opinions that the president ot the senate is subject to tbe direction of the two houses of con gress in counting th e electoral votes he contends that votes which ate disputed bv either house on the allegation that tbey are tainted with fraud cannot be counted and that the powers of the two houses being in this respect equal a dead-lock must ensue in this case a contingency may arise which will require the house of representatives to elect the president the house he argues is the sole judge as to whether the exigency has arisen which makes it its constitutional duty to elect a president in consequence of the failure of any candidate to receive a legal majority of the votes in the official count if the louisiana reluming board should fraudulently pronounce the hayes e'ecs tors elected the democrats of that stale would dispute it and whilst kellogg would give certificates to the hayes electors mcenery who has never abandoned his claim to being the rightful governor would give certificates to the tilden elec tois there being thus two sets ot cer tificates the senate would throw out those for tilden and the hÂ»use those for hayes in this case tbe lecogniz.-d votes for hayes would be 177 and for tilden 184 as 185 is necessary to elect failing this one additional vote there would be no election by tbe people the house then iu accordance with the provisions of the constitution would proceed to elect a president it will be recolleted in this connection and in support of this view that at the last election there were two sets of certificates from louisiana and that as a consequence louisiana was left out of the count the precedent is a strik ing one though its vote at that time did not in any way affect the result of the generat program tne marked out in mr potter's letter the herald says this is undoubted the settled democratic programme tbis ia the method of pro cedure the party chiefs have deliberately resolved to adopt we commend their boldness in placing it so early before the country and submitting it to the ordeal of public discussion " patience-put stand firm bellefonte pa.j watchman j it has been determined by the repub lican leaders to reverse the figures or as many of them as may be necessary and count hayes and wheeler in instead of tilden and hendricks to help them do this and prevent a rising of the people of those states against this damnable ini quity president grant has ordered all the available troops into those states and placed them under the command of sheri dan and ruger in this emergency which may precede a great crisis our advice to the democra cy and lo the thousands of republicans who helped to elect tilden aud hendricks is to be calm bul firm while it is not nec essary to brag and bluster or to say things needlessly to irritate our opponents we must not yield an inch their is no more doubt that mr tilden is fairly elected than there is that the 25ih of december next will be chrislm is or the 1st of jan nary new year's day this great fact is conceeded by the masses of the repub lican parly as well as by those of the de mocracy and it is the solemn resolve of the whole people the conspirators against our liberties excepted that mr tilden shall be inaugurated it must end in this at last no matter what the present de lay may mean or what infamous mon strosity may aiise from il lhe people who hive voted for and elected mr tilden are determined not to be cheated out ol his inauguration und administration they wanted a change ; they voted for a change and now ihey have sworn by almighty god that they will have a change l"t us be patient let us be magnanimous let us be charitable l-l us be calm let in be cool let us p considerate let us wait but let us stand by nur victory and swear before heaven calling god to witness that no power on earth shall de prive us of them ! freedom still lives in this country and neither presidents nor armies nor bayonets nor usurpers nor ambitions designing knaves shall chain her to their car nor crush her down to earth thu people are sovereign they intend to assert their sovereignty and wo be to those who stand in lhe way retribution and vengeance are in the air and we solemnly warn those who stand with the knife at the throat of free gov ernment that the day of their power is at an end store houses burnt the store houses of mr j 11 thompson recently nf charlotte and mr iv a sossamon 8c co at mount moiirne iredell county were consumed by fire un wednesday night last there was an insurance on the goods in both houses mr thompson's loss in goods and wearing apparel amounts to three or four thousand dollars with only 1,000 insurance and mr sossamou's loss about 8:5,000 wiih 2,500 insurance j so reported the fire occured about midnight i lharlottt democrat official vote for state officers the following is the official vote as as certained by the court made by the joint i session ofthe geueral assembly for stale i officers : governor : i viince 123 265 ' seule 110,256 vance's majority 13,009 lieutenant governor : jarvis 123,863 sm,tb 109.5s0 jarvis majority 1 4,283 secretary of state : fngelhard 124,011 alberlson 108,914 engelhard's majority 16 097 auiutor : ij0vp 122,950 uel,1 . v 109,797 love's majority 13,153 treasurer : wortli 123,936 \\ heeler 109 225 worth's majority 14 711 superintendent of public instruc tion : scarborough 123,sg0 carson 10s,123 scarborough's majority 15 737 attorxey-gexera i k(!nan 123.608 hargrove 109,357 kenau's majority 14 251 another amendment needed in the third section of the third article of the constitution it is provided that the returns of the election for officers of the executive department shall be opened and the vote counted in the presence of a majority of the members of both houses of the general assembly in the second section of the secoud article as amended il is provided that the legislature shall meet biennially on the first wednesday after the first monday in january in tho first section of the third article of the con stitution however it is provided tbat the terms of office of the officers of the exec utive department shall begin on the tirst day of january next after their elec tron the inconsistency in the above provii ions ofthe constitution is apuareut at a glance and it is incumbent on the present legislature to cure the defect as will be seen by reference to the provisions of the thirteenth article as amended setting forth the manner in which changes may be hereafter made fortunately the pro visions of that article render it an easy matter to make the necessary change either by fixing another day for tbe begin ning ofthe term of offices ofthe officers of lhe executive department or by provid ing some other mode and time for couiiung the votes of such officers all that is neieisary is for the present general assembly to agree tothe amend ment by a three-fifth vote of each house and to submit it to the qualified voters of the whole state at the next general flec tion and then to use the language of the constitu'ion in the event of its adoption by a majority of the votes cast such amendment shall become a part of the con stitution ol this state and just here ii may not be amiss to remark upon the advantage it is to the people of north carolina to havo their own constitution within their own control with the consent ofthe people any defect in the constitution may now be speedily cheaply intelligently a><d conveniently remedied without the consent first for mally obtained no change whatever can be made â€” and thus at last we realize that the people are once more masters in north carolina the figh has been a long one and many and dark have been the days during its progress sorne indeed there were when there seemed scarcely a ray of light in th whole horison but thank god the people are at last victori ous and may we not take hope for the fu ture iu national affairs from our experience in lhe past in state affairs ( ls it not in the natural order of things in this govern ment of states that the government of tho slat's should fiist be redeemed and put within constitutional bounds and lhat then the federal government should be restor ed ( â€” la not that building from the found ation np 1 let ns take fresh hope then and with renewed vigor fight the bat tlo of constitutional liberty in america and the country will yet right itself â€” raleigh observer south carolina news sixty thousand and five bundled acres of forfeited land are offered for sale in georgetown county and yet chamber lain wants to hold on to the gubernatorial chair a day or two ago a respectable old lady was walking along the streets when a negro man seized ber and kissed her when she demurred against this outrage the negro lemarked 1 did not do it to insult you i only wanted to humble you â€” news and courier the rev e a bolles who has been for twenty years or more ag'nt for tho american biblo society in south caro lina has retired from thai work and south carolina has been put with north carolina under dr wiley of the latter stale

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the carolina watchman irol viii third series salisbury n c december 7 1876 no 8 wkkki.v-.t j bruner ed and prop t ! - nta ' t k iiitr.nkk associate ed gcbscbiftioh rates : rear payable tn advance t oo r r o ,'. 1 25 i "**"" advertising rates : , ... one pubucatloo i oo l 1 vu iii'ill ileitis 1 50 , rit - tor months or a year jhe prostrate state dragooned jrjfjo treacflery of the federal commander jhanly and outspoken renunciation of the fed eral usurpation ifflg 0fjhhrue metal fill remain until dragged out by armed troops is it a free government or a centralized despotism ! a t est t ) b e m a i ) e â€” wu at theaemrican peo ple will skk the political situation â€” while lie telegraphic information which we gient i our readars to d*y is lar from utirfaeuny the manly protest of tli ee ofthe leading democrats i the country ijjressfii to general ruger reads like ionic inspired prophecy the eilualiou is alarming in one re ject but at last in this ( leulennial ye.u , tlie test whether the bayonet or tin b tl lot and tlm aw shall prevail id to be made ifgeienil linger drives nut the habere of llm south carolina legisla tor who have been returned from edge jitld and liui ens counties il will oaly bedone at the jioint i'l the b i \ oner ; it will only he done u|)iÂ»u the order of president grant at washington and we bake the prediction tbat if ibis order is carried out grant will be impeached im rcediatc.lv after lhe assembling of con rress if general ruger canies out tbe programme which he seemed to have agreed u| 1 1 necessary to make ibe em hkk iii that case we may av farewell along farewell to the principles or araeri ean liberty and lhe rights nf the people farther news from the palmetto s ate will be awaited with deep interest there is nothing absolutely uothiug from louisiana this morning although iit electiun was held twenty-three days ago ud all the returns must have been in long ago if ihey ha 1 bee i desiied the returning board in lhat slate are practic ing a strategem known iu military par lance as masterly inactivity the ob jtctoftlie board seems lo bo truly how not to get returns " tin news from florida is remarkably tnt-agic the democrats claims that the magistrate Â« ho doctored the rei urns from bakrr couuty was appointed since ihe election presumably for that purpose so that while there is no change in the sit uation then it may be said that the american people are daily hearing tin destiny in which with wise counsels and q honest administration of the laws the old ahip of male may glide safely over llir ilortnv political with tilden al the mm or be sunk to the bottom of the lurln.l waters of political oblivion and be t'uie a warning to future generations ur proud republic will shine out as at emblem of the stab.lity of our govern nt or it will b blotted mil ol existence tu become a stench in the nostrils of hon Â«', law abiding men columbia nov aa â€” the d.-mocra Â«* house took peaceable possession ol the state legislative hall at their regular hour f convening 11 o'clock this morning and proceeded to work under their organizi n the republican house entered Â«Â« ball at lv their regular hour of meet '"&â€¢ both speakeis are u lhe bland wallace democrat in the i hair mack-v tc p at the link's desk a debate is progressing llepublicau members ham ton and myers denounce the action of *Â» republican house as illegal and uu f0'i"liuiiional everything is peaceable j good temper prevails no person wowed in the hall except members the uemncrat are cheeiful ami confideni he republicans anxious and dispirited ome of tluir members say they want a titled gov in ment and are for south carolina rather llian for the men who have ruined her 7 p m situation but little changed l the stale house good humor on Â° lu idcs with some efforts al a coaipro which may result satiafactory about :{ o'clock p m , gen ruger e l his staff officer to the speaker's stand d notified the democratic speaker wallace that 12 o'clock to morrow the memocrajic members from edgi-field w uhl tint be p nniiled on the floor of he house upon lhe receipt of that or der the followiug letter was immediately fctit : columbia s c nov 30 to gen t ji ruger commanding u Â°- i roops in south carolina : i^ear sir : we have just leard trough maj mcginnis nf your staff j^lu otdcr communicated lo mr wallace speaker of the house of representatives that at 12 o'clock to morrow tbe members elect from edgefield would not be allow ed upon the floor of the house to say that we are surprised at such an order after the explanations and pledges made by you to each one of us is to use very mild language when the outrage of tuesday last w-as committed by the plac ing of armed sentinels at the door of the house of representatives who decided the admission of members to their seats and when the provisions of the constitu tion and the decision of tbe supreme joint were brought to your attention you distinctly and warmly asserted again and again that your orders were misunder stood and that you had not intended to have sentinels ai the door of the hail and that you hud not and did not intend to assume to decide upon the legality of any man's seat or upon his right to enter the hall you were then retained hy us that your guard received instructions from one dennis a citizen and partisan of gov chamberlain to admit parties upon iiis own piss or that of one jones and bad through armed forces excluded all demo crats ti'im ibe ball until the republican organization was completed you assur ed us again that such were nol your or ders vou wen told by us that notwith standing the perpetration of this inex pressible shame upon our free institutions and the rights of the people the evils could siill be remedied without any vios leuce of bloodshed by the simple with drawal ol your guard from the doors of the hill ; that the democratic member's snuggle with the republicans and by a majority of votes decide all questions in accordance wiih law and the usages of legislative bodies you stated that no troops should be at the door and that un der no ciicnmstances would you interfere j except ihere should occur a serious dis | tin bance of the peace you affirmed your determination to exercise nn supervisory control whatever over the body or bodies claiming to be the house of representa tives all this occurred on yesterday i.i.-t night in a later interview with sen \ ator gordon you made the same assur i auces and this morning after both bodies were assembled in the hall you assured gen hampton that under no circum ' stance would you iuleifere except to keep lhe peace whal now can justly measure our astonishment at the issuance of such an order as the one just sent by you there is no bieach of the peace and no prospect of its disturbance yen had it officially brought to your knowledge that absolute good humor prevails in that hall v -\ e cannot refrain from expressing the apprehension tbat the fact that a num ber of leading republicans are taking is sue with the legality ot the proceedings by the republican house has changed your views as to your line of duly it is proper that we should say in conclusion that we relied upon your honor as a man and your character as a soldier to main tain your p'edg'*d position of nou inter vention the democratic members from edgefield and liurens are entitled to their seats by the judgment of the su preme courl of this state and we have advised them to remain in lhat hall until removed by your troops that tbe issue may be made in ibis centennial year of american independence whether we have a government ot law as construed by our courts or a centralized despotism whose onl law is force let the american peo ple heboid tbe spectacle of a brigadier gen ral of the army seated by the side of governor chamberlain in a room of the state house and issuing bis orders to a legislative body peaceably assembled iu one ofthe original thirteen commonwealths of ibis union respectfully yours signed j b gordon wadk uahptox a c haskkll these three gentlemen hid been in conference with gen linger yesterday and today louisiana democratic votes thrown out â€” board still a vhitvavy â€” destructive fire â€” volunteer company required by kel logg fo surrender their arms new orleans dec l â€” hy adoption of the supervisors return and rejection nf billot boxes the democrats lose 1,136 voles in uist baton rouge pai ish ihe boaid decides the same evidence applies io stale as to electoral ticket two white men planters near whom mrs i'ltikstou lived show that her mis fortunes were the result of low negro brawls and general bad behavior the white people having nothing to do wiih the prclimiiuires or the tragic result one of these gentlemen furnished her with a doctor and hurried her husband â€” her child when found i i the lake had no marks of violence the hoard refused to hear other witnesses saying if women had slandered the people they had their rem edy in courts tbe board had nothing to do with it a fire broke out early this morning at corner of s lb-mam and claeborne streets has reached and crossed esplande street and is still burning at noon three blocks thus far were destroyed the city volunteer military organiza tion turned over their arms borrowed from the slate to col l'lan chief of the metropolitan police at tbe request oi gov kellogg tiie indian w1gwam8 tlie lied skins badly worsted on the trail of crazy horse cheyenne dec 1 â€” mckenzic'a victory is most complete the entire village with stores captured leaving the indians wholly destilute the indians loss is about 25 with a large num ber wounded mckenzle will combine with crook and attack crazy horse on the rosebud river gen ruger writes a let ter to the war depart ment disclaims interfer ence was by his orders a colored member severely denounces his party as lawless and revolution ary others declare their in tention of leaving the or ganization columbia dec 1 â€” everything un ; changed hoth parties in the house ex | peeling military interference none up ' to six p m gen roger has done noth 1 ing as yet the matter will hardly | change before to morrow democrats ate cheerful republicans are uneasy columbia s c dec 1 gen w t sherman or the secretary of war washington i c : i have cheerfully abstained from inter ference with th 3 organization of the house from the first on lhe application ol the governor and my own belief for the ne cessity therefore for tho preservation of the peace i placed troops iu the slate house but not in the rooms of the assem bly or either the houses on the day of the meeting it came about that at the tine tlie soldiers were placed on either side of the door of entrance to the hall of rep resentatives under the following circum stances : a person at the door of the house and who claimed authority to ex amine certificates of those claiming to be members prior to their admission to the hall bul who i think had no legal authori ty for so doi:ig ( applied to the officers in command of ibe troops placed in the cor lidor lor the preservation of peace for as sistance on ihe ground that he was being pressed upon and could not perform his duty the soldiers were placed as staled as so in as i was fully informed of the circumstances i ordered the soldiers wiih ! drawn as 1 had previously informed gov chamberlain that i should confine my action to the preservation of the peace and should do nothing with reference to keeping the doors of the rooms of meeting ' of the houses or tlie rooms themselves ' unless it became necessary because of breach of the peace which the civil of ficers of the houses should be unable to restore â€” no act was done by the soldiers except that of presence as stated bul ! whilst they were so present persons claim ing rights ot enterance under the certifi cate of the clerk of the supreme court were refused atl mission signed t ii ruger commanding the department a proposition signed by both speakers to adjourn to 12 to-morrow and meet with the status unchanged provided gen ruger would agree cen linger refused on the ground he must obey o.ders from washington tbe hoiiics therefore are not likely to adjourn hamilton a colored republican member from beaufort made a strong speech said be was a republican voted for cham berlain hayes and wheeler bill he could not stand to see all law stricken down in the effort to preserve the party every member knew lhat this body to which lie belonged was not legal had no quorum when organized that laws made by it would be void and there would beuopto tectiou lo property or life if we ivenide the law ; that we musi bow to judgment of the supreme court several republi cans have signified tbeir intention io aban don the jlackey organization south carolina both parties spent the night in lhe state house hall lighted by gas for the first time in two years â€” ruger ims nut yet carried out his threat i bought he would resign first colombia dec 1 the situation is un changed both bodies have occupied the house of representatives since 12 yesterday numer ous proposition for compromise availed noth ing now half past one lhe coiled states troops have not interfered the democratic representatives from edgefield and laurens are still in their seats the democrats are cheerful and claim that the united slates ail tlioritivs cannot ignore the decisions of the supreme courl it is now likely that sufficient number of republicans will unite with lhe democrats in which event the entire matter will be settled washington dec 1 specials from colum bia up to ten o'clock last night represent the colored element ofthe combined houses as in a yelling state as night approached thev brought candles in their bottles the gas com pany however upon security by the democrat for the bills turned on the gas and for the first lime in two years the great chandeliers of ihe house were ablaze the very latest advices this morning show little progress toward the solution what cen ruger will do or ims heett ordered to do is unknown lii soldierly comrades here say if obedience to ordeis infringes on his private honor he will surrender his sword louisiana the supporters of kellogg fire the city â€” one incendiary shot and killed in the act â€” another shot at but escapes new orleans dee 1 â€” as far as could be ascertained llie following in lhe number of hou ses destroyed by the tire here this morning 20 on columbus st 24 on roberston pt 32 on vellere 3 on maro's st and 10 and st anna church on lsplande st the dwellings of augusta and amadie courterie a brains rocca clark and crazat super's residences on esplan ath st were consumed most of the buildings burned were small cottages and hundreds of poor people lost all their possessions leon detrieux a member ofthe 6re department had his leg broken ir three places a negro who was detected setting fire to one ofthe buildings during the progress of the conflagration was shot and instantly killed another negro also found in the act of committing the crime was shot at but was missed and succeeded in rrmk inj bis escape cabinet meeting complexion of the illinois legislature washington dec 1 cabinet full ses sion unusually long no developments of par ticular strength by any one for the speaker more important matters crowd the contest out of conversation the illinois legislature consists of 100 re publicans 9s democrats and 5 independents this indicates that gen logan will not be his successor the debt statement shows in treasurv coin nearly eight million currency 11 j millions bishop hood his response to the sentinel for the colored people kxpression from the color conference of north caro lina tin sentinel assurances in behalf of the de mocracy accepted und if carried out we shall ilarr no ground of complaint for the political affiliations of the colored people in the future plymouth n c nov llth 187g to the editors of the ualeigh sentinel gentlemen : nothing could have been more timely than tlie article iu your issue of tbe 9,h inst addressed to lhe colored people and under the circumstance nothing could be more noble and magnanimous than the spirit manifested by the senti ments expressed i hail this a a beam of light which betokens the dawn of a brighter day 1 am prepared to assert that bad such sentiments emanated from the same source nine years ago you would not have seen what you have witnessed during this unpleasant period of our history â€” un pleasant to you and certainly not less un pleasant to ns you would not have seen the colored man voting most solidly against the men for whom personally he had the highest possible respect yea a respect that amounted almost to reverence vou would never have seen colored men voting for men who cared nothing for tbein except that by tbeir suffrage they could bold office had it not beeu that they believed that this was the only way in which they could maintain their own lights the situation of my people as you frankly and generously admit has been unpleasant in lhe extreme 1 think you will agree with me lhat as a rule the black man has lhe organ of approbatives ness large he loves the approval of his fellow man especially of the better and more favored class it has therefore been w imt appealed lo him the sternest neces sity amounting to a religious duly that has induced him to sacr.iice the good will of those to have obtained which he would have been willing to make any reasonable sacrifice as your articles in substance admits all ibis i will not follow this line of thought further you are right my people do feel alarmed but if you will permit me i will sug gest a cause thai may not bave occured to you i think wtiai has most alarmed my people is the lone of the dem ci atic press we receive so much abuse so little praise so little fairness our crimes are magnified our virtu are overlooked when appeals have been ! made to us ii litis been done in a kind of ! half-threatening style which repulses or a don't care style lhat shows a want of heartiness i am sure that from your own observation a bare statement of tlie case is sufficient to enable you to take in lhe whole of my meaning the colored people are more discern ing more penetrating thau llwy have the credit for it is because of the heartiness tin evidence siuceiity running through every line cf your article thai i hail it with joy as well as on account ol the source from which it comes the sentiments expressed are such as naturally flow from lhe hearts of christian gentlemen the sentiments ofthe sentinel under its pres ent management have been far above what wc hate been accustomed to you gentlemen aie entitled to all you claim vou have a right to speak for the democratic party you i bt-lieve can mould its administration of the affiirs of the government you represent the wealth the intelligence the refinement ea the religion of that party the pai ty could not tiff ud to lose influence ot the class you represent and now speaking lr at least 1,000 000 oue hundred thousand of my people who attend upon the ministry in the church 1 represent i assure you that we receive and accopi your very generous address with hearts of gratitude and i will further assure you that if the affaiis ot this state are administered during the next four yeats as you assure us they will be you shall have no ground to complain of our conduct as to our po litical affiliations in future in ibis we sacrifice no principle it is not men nor party interests that we have sought to promote but our liberties we have sought to becure you assure us lhat you will maintain our rights you use such language as can not be mistaken it comes from a source that we cannot distrust you suggest a proposition that time will test you say the colored people will now have the opportunity to leain that the democracy has no design against their liberties this is all we have ever asked for were we not satisfied with the fulfillment of these promises we would deserve your scorn j w hood bishop a m e zion church america the first cargo of iron for the spar tanburg and asbeville railroad has ar rived al spartanburg and tbe work of track laying will be commenced imme diately cremation in georgia lhe oriental order of humanity burning the body of w 11 suppus augusta constitutionalist j in augusta on saturday evening laaf the body of a man who died on the 3d in : atlanta was cremated under the direction ! of the oriental order of humanity the coffin a handsome rosewood upon which was engraved npon a silver plate william r suppus age 42 died no vember 4th 1 870 was placed upon the pile and the order was then gathered in a circle solemn grand and peculiar around the mortal remains of the deceased brother arter the singular prayer nf the order had been delivered by the junior friar the torch was solemnly and delib erately applied lo the pile and at once the flames leaped upward and up ward tbe coffin was soon enveloped in flames and thousands saw what had nev er been known here before a human body cremated balconies windows housetops trees awnings to say nothing ofthe living mass that thronged the street were crowded to witness the oro ceedings while the fire was lapping in angry fury the lifeless body of this great man the friar delivered in the peculiar language of the order a most eloquent and touching oration soon the coffin began to crumble and a ghastly spectacle was presented to the eye the body blackened burning hissing smoking was clearly visible and as the stifling odors filled the air the shrieks and cries of men women and chil dren were heard on all sides after the funeral fires had burned down all that was mortal of w r sup pus was gathered in the urn by the most worthy keeper of the sacred relics and the society headed by the band playing tbe dirge specially written for the occasion entitled he has gone to his long long home unsoaked by water returned to lhe hut where the ashes were deposited iu the vault theu the bociety dispersed public and private rogues opinions may differ as to the cause but there is no doubt of the fact that in the days before the war public plundering was unknown at the south what of it was practiced was confined to the people of great moral ideas our brethren in habiting the northern section of tbe union with the changes induced by the results of the war between the states there has come change iu this respect south ern communities now as well as northern communities number among their citizens those who have grown rich by plunder of the people and southern communities as well as northern communities have learned since the war to look with com placency at least upon rogues who pass by the corn cribs and hen-roosts of their neighbors but under the forms of law break into the public crib and appropriate the property of the people public opin ion is still against the petty thief it needs to be once more roused against the thief who grows rich by theft the people must learn to think as they once did that personal and political honesty cannot exist apart that the man who lies as a politi cian will lie as readily upon occasion in any other relation of life that he who plunders the public will plunder the indi vidual citizen with as little compunction it the plunder be worth taking as is well said by the baltimore sun there never was a greater or more p>'stilent fallacy than that which prevails in many minds that there is a difference in the guilt of public aud private dishonesty so tbat the crime of stealing for example which when an individual is the victim brings the wrongdoer into universal contempt becomes as it were diluted and innocuous when a whole nation is plundered even the shameless whisky ring rogues when convicted and sent to the penitentiary are not looked upon as common felons and have a reasonable prospect of being speed ily released from the inconvenience of their confinement by executive interposi tion â€” a result which has been curiously realizpd already tweed the gigantic robber of new york city becomes a kind of hero and is brought home from his temporary pi ice of retreat iu a ship of war ibe captain of which gives up his cabin lo tbis felonious guest of the nation though it is true not wi hout strictly guarding him as to the credit mobilier and robbing railroad rings iu general no punishment and scarcely aud public oblo quy ever overtakes them they are just as influential with their party and receive as much social consideration as if they had never been suspected of felony yet nothing is more certain than that iiip moral quality of such me:i is essentially lhat of the inmates f the jail and penitentiaries of the lar.d while it may be doubtful whether tire rogue wiio picks the pockets of an individual dossesses the genius to pick the pockets of a nation there is no doubt whatever lhat the man who picks the pocket ofa nation is capable of pick ing the pocket of an individual this view of the case ought always to be made prominent in order that the public thief if he has no other punishment may fully understand that he is understood by his fellow men and that they are not deceiv ed as to his true inwardness as a rogne and felon because the depredations are public instead of individual â€” ualeigh observer the new york sun says : to count hayes in fraudulently , is probably the most moristrous political crime ever conceived in this country if successful it would be the murder of the republic it would be the end of official accountability to the people â€” the end of elections thence forth our rulers would be named for us by those in power at washington tiie democratic presidential programme the new york herald publishes a let ter from hon clarkson n potter review ing the political situation and stating the course which ought lo be taken if mr til den should be cheated out his election â€¢ by the action of the louisiana or any other | returning board the letter is a singularly able one briefly staled the conclusions reached by mr potter are that in the event of the issue of clearly fraudulent certiii cates to the hayes electors in louisiana it will devolve on congress to take th matter in band mr potter holds with mr randall and many other prominent statesmen and publicists and he cites precedents in support ofhis opinions that the president ot the senate is subject to tbe direction of the two houses of con gress in counting th e electoral votes he contends that votes which ate disputed bv either house on the allegation that tbey are tainted with fraud cannot be counted and that the powers of the two houses being in this respect equal a dead-lock must ensue in this case a contingency may arise which will require the house of representatives to elect the president the house he argues is the sole judge as to whether the exigency has arisen which makes it its constitutional duty to elect a president in consequence of the failure of any candidate to receive a legal majority of the votes in the official count if the louisiana reluming board should fraudulently pronounce the hayes e'ecs tors elected the democrats of that stale would dispute it and whilst kellogg would give certificates to the hayes electors mcenery who has never abandoned his claim to being the rightful governor would give certificates to the tilden elec tois there being thus two sets ot cer tificates the senate would throw out those for tilden and the hÂ»use those for hayes in this case tbe lecogniz.-d votes for hayes would be 177 and for tilden 184 as 185 is necessary to elect failing this one additional vote there would be no election by tbe people the house then iu accordance with the provisions of the constitution would proceed to elect a president it will be recolleted in this connection and in support of this view that at the last election there were two sets of certificates from louisiana and that as a consequence louisiana was left out of the count the precedent is a strik ing one though its vote at that time did not in any way affect the result of the generat program tne marked out in mr potter's letter the herald says this is undoubted the settled democratic programme tbis ia the method of pro cedure the party chiefs have deliberately resolved to adopt we commend their boldness in placing it so early before the country and submitting it to the ordeal of public discussion " patience-put stand firm bellefonte pa.j watchman j it has been determined by the repub lican leaders to reverse the figures or as many of them as may be necessary and count hayes and wheeler in instead of tilden and hendricks to help them do this and prevent a rising of the people of those states against this damnable ini quity president grant has ordered all the available troops into those states and placed them under the command of sheri dan and ruger in this emergency which may precede a great crisis our advice to the democra cy and lo the thousands of republicans who helped to elect tilden aud hendricks is to be calm bul firm while it is not nec essary to brag and bluster or to say things needlessly to irritate our opponents we must not yield an inch their is no more doubt that mr tilden is fairly elected than there is that the 25ih of december next will be chrislm is or the 1st of jan nary new year's day this great fact is conceeded by the masses of the repub lican parly as well as by those of the de mocracy and it is the solemn resolve of the whole people the conspirators against our liberties excepted that mr tilden shall be inaugurated it must end in this at last no matter what the present de lay may mean or what infamous mon strosity may aiise from il lhe people who hive voted for and elected mr tilden are determined not to be cheated out ol his inauguration und administration they wanted a change ; they voted for a change and now ihey have sworn by almighty god that they will have a change l"t us be patient let us be magnanimous let us be charitable l-l us be calm let in be cool let us p considerate let us wait but let us stand by nur victory and swear before heaven calling god to witness that no power on earth shall de prive us of them ! freedom still lives in this country and neither presidents nor armies nor bayonets nor usurpers nor ambitions designing knaves shall chain her to their car nor crush her down to earth thu people are sovereign they intend to assert their sovereignty and wo be to those who stand in lhe way retribution and vengeance are in the air and we solemnly warn those who stand with the knife at the throat of free gov ernment that the day of their power is at an end store houses burnt the store houses of mr j 11 thompson recently nf charlotte and mr iv a sossamon 8c co at mount moiirne iredell county were consumed by fire un wednesday night last there was an insurance on the goods in both houses mr thompson's loss in goods and wearing apparel amounts to three or four thousand dollars with only 1,000 insurance and mr sossamou's loss about 8:5,000 wiih 2,500 insurance j so reported the fire occured about midnight i lharlottt democrat official vote for state officers the following is the official vote as as certained by the court made by the joint i session ofthe geueral assembly for stale i officers : governor : i viince 123 265 ' seule 110,256 vance's majority 13,009 lieutenant governor : jarvis 123,863 sm,tb 109.5s0 jarvis majority 1 4,283 secretary of state : fngelhard 124,011 alberlson 108,914 engelhard's majority 16 097 auiutor : ij0vp 122,950 uel,1 . v 109,797 love's majority 13,153 treasurer : wortli 123,936 \\ heeler 109 225 worth's majority 14 711 superintendent of public instruc tion : scarborough 123,sg0 carson 10s,123 scarborough's majority 15 737 attorxey-gexera i k(!nan 123.608 hargrove 109,357 kenau's majority 14 251 another amendment needed in the third section of the third article of the constitution it is provided that the returns of the election for officers of the executive department shall be opened and the vote counted in the presence of a majority of the members of both houses of the general assembly in the second section of the secoud article as amended il is provided that the legislature shall meet biennially on the first wednesday after the first monday in january in tho first section of the third article of the con stitution however it is provided tbat the terms of office of the officers of the exec utive department shall begin on the tirst day of january next after their elec tron the inconsistency in the above provii ions ofthe constitution is apuareut at a glance and it is incumbent on the present legislature to cure the defect as will be seen by reference to the provisions of the thirteenth article as amended setting forth the manner in which changes may be hereafter made fortunately the pro visions of that article render it an easy matter to make the necessary change either by fixing another day for tbe begin ning ofthe term of offices ofthe officers of lhe executive department or by provid ing some other mode and time for couiiung the votes of such officers all that is neieisary is for the present general assembly to agree tothe amend ment by a three-fifth vote of each house and to submit it to the qualified voters of the whole state at the next general flec tion and then to use the language of the constitu'ion in the event of its adoption by a majority of the votes cast such amendment shall become a part of the con stitution ol this state and just here ii may not be amiss to remark upon the advantage it is to the people of north carolina to havo their own constitution within their own control with the consent ofthe people any defect in the constitution may now be speedily cheaply intelligently a>